Re: ios vim and plugins

On Feb 18, 2013, at 12:09 AM, Chris Lott wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Bee <forth@calcentral.com> wrote:
>> On Feb 17, 4:07 pm, Chris Lott <ch...@chrislott.org> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Bee <fo...@calcentral.com> wrote:
>>> Nothing competes with Vim, but I still can't get past the fact
>>> that--most of the time--I can't ever get into insert mode with iPad
>>> Vim and my external keyboard.
>>
>> I have never had a problem getting into insert mode, simply the letter
>> 'i' but have remapped getting out of insert back to normal mode
>> because the default ios vim mapping is '\' which is buried 3 levels.
>
> It seems to be a problem with (some?) external keyboards. It works
> fine if I just use the on-screen keyboard. A number of us were having
> this problem and it was never resolved. I'm not sure that development
> of the iPad version of Vim is still going.

It seems not. Given the fondness of developers for vim I don't understand why. I would think especially the MacVim crowd would be interested. And given what others have done with other apps it should be possible. Maybe even not that difficult.

[Says he, knows nothing and could contribute nothing to the effort.]

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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA USA
eeweir@bellsouth.net

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